Green Bay Police say they are investigating a cyber-security incident.
Police say a local corporation’s computer network was compromised and human resources information was stolen by the cyber attackers. Police say in this case, it appeared the cyber actors used a known vulnerability to access the company’s computer systems and human resources software to steal personal identifying information from employees. They then utilized the information to facilitate the theft of significant amounts of money from numerous victims within the organization.
At this time, police are not naming which corporation was hacked.
Police say in this case there was a known issue to the system vendor and a security patch was made available in October of 2017 for use on this type of computer server. However, according to police, the patch had not been installed and updated in this case despite being available for several months.
They do not know if this attack was attempted at any other local corporations.
Police say this incident demonstrates how important it is to maintain public facing computer systems with the latest security patches.
